• In
1971, the groundbreaking situation comedy
All in the Family premiered on CBS television.

• In
2010, Haiti was struck by a magnitude-7 earthquake, killing as many as 300,000
residents and leaving more than 1.5 million people homeless.

•
Ten years ago: Blamed by shareholders for AOL Time Warner’s sharp fall in
fortunes, Steve Case announced that he was stepping down as chairman of the conglomerate he had
helped to create.

•
Five years ago: President George W. Bush, visiting Bahrain, said he was cheered by
news that Iraq’s parliament had approved legislation reinstating thousands of former supporters of
Saddam Hussein’s dissolved Baath party to government jobs.

•
One year ago: Pentagon leaders scrambled to contain damage from an Internet video
purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses.

Thought for Today

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
U.S. politician and diplomat (1927-2003)